Feel Goods of the Week:

Boy, 9, Pays Police Officer’s Breakfast Tab With a Note: ‘I Want to Be You When I Grow Up’

This teacher raised enough money to buy new bikes for each student in her school

“Blomquist, 34, teaches at North Charleston’s Pepperhill Elementary School, where many of the students live in poverty. Last year, one of her students mentioned how much he wanted a bike for his birthday. His parents couldn’t afford to buy him one, and neither could she.

“I started thinking about all the other kids who might not have bikes. We take a lot for granted and we forget that there’s a large category of kids out there who don’t have bikes,” she said. “That was such a large piece of my childhood memories, and I immediately thought, ‘oh, they’re not getting that!’”

In September, Blomquist started a “Every Kid Deserves a Bike!” GoFundMe page and set a $65,000 goal, enough to buy bikes and helmets for the 650 students at Pepperhill. Within three months, she had raised more than $82,000.”

I love all of these! This is such a great post to kick off the week with! My favorite quote that you have posted is “The broken will always be able to love harder than most. Once you’ve been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines.” That quote speaks to my soul and heart. Thank you so much for sharing this post!

I love the first quote — you have to be odd to be number 1! I wish people were more open when I was younger to the wonders of oddities in children.. The world is so much more open minded now. Not completely, but we are getting there.